An astonishing cocktail of friendship, resistance and life set among the unexpected landscape of an elderly care facility.
This funny and heartbreaking Spanish animation set in a care home for people with Alzheimer's is desolate yet lovable.
An unsparing look at the winter of life, salted with humour and emotion.
Bleak, funny, sympathetic and desperately sad.
Lots to love here, but it's all perhaps a little soft.
Wrinkles is a nuanced, rich look at human frailty and the beauty of life, alternating between frank and tenderly humane notes with perfect precision, making the conventional beats its story does hit genuinely poignant.
Watching this movie has the same desolate quality as Philip Larkin's poem The Building, and yet it is tender and lovable, too.
It's far more uplifting than its subject matter might suggest.
An intelligent, entertaining, altogether unsentimental evocation of the experience of old age.
An unsentimental, benevolent portrait of ageing, affection and spirit, which contains an excellent dog joke.
Offers a more mature take on ageing than the majority of live action films chasing the grey pound.
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow from Friday April 25, 2014, until Monday April 28, 2014. More info: http://www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/
Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Wednesday April 30, 2014, until Thursday May 1, 2014. More info: www.filmhousecinema.com
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee from Monday May 5, 2014, until Thursday May 8, 2014. More info: www.dca.org.uk
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